8th Grade Language Arts EOG Review

This genre retells a memory or specific event from the author's life. 

This is the theme of a passage, story, novel, poem, or drama that readers can apply to life.

To strengthen your ideas & opinions with examples, facts, or evidence is to add _____ details.

A form of suspense or potential conflict between characters or arise from general situations.

It is the way words, sentences, and paragraphs are organized to create a complete work.

These are the people or animals who take part in a literary work.

This is whoever will be reading, listening or watching a story, text, or drama.

A state of heightened anticipation & tension, from events in or the setting of a story.

This is a character in a work that represents a certain type of person.

The key point made in a passage is called its ____ idea.

This is the time and place in which a literary work happens.

This is a comparison based on a similarity between things that are otherwise dissimilar.

Narrator or writer who puts their own opinions, feelings into telling the action in literature.

The way an author expresses ideas through words, literary devices, & sentence structure.

The message, usually about life or society, that an author wishes to explore in a literary work

These are the facts or details that back up a main idea, theme, or thesis.

This is a person, book, document, website or record that provides information.

This is the reference to a person, place, or event from history, literature, or religion.

This is the specific part of a subject that is dealt with in a research paper or in an essay.

This is an individual's mental or moral quality in literature

This is to break down and separate a whole into its parts.

This is to state briefly or bring to a close

This is the attitude that an author takes toward the audience, the subject, or a character.

This is a method of relating how two or more elements or texts are SIMILAR.

This describes something that is complicated, difficult, or consists of interrelated parts.

Something widely recognized as a model or example of a type of literary work.

One or more reasons presented by a speaker/writer to lead the audience/reader to a conclusion.

This is a work of literature, especially a play, that has a happy ending.

The combination of ways an author shows readers what a person in a literary selection is like.

This is the reason for creating written work that informs, persuades, or entertains.